Public Sector Banks are suffering from huge staff crisis. During the last 5 years (FY 2020-25), a total number of 148687 employees have been recruited by the PSBs and for the FY 2025-26, recruitment of 48570 employees is under way. Still, a total of 32,567 posts are vacant in Public Sector Banks as of 30.06.2025. In officer cadre, there is vacancy of 17500. In Clerical cadre, vacancy is 12861. In sub-staff cadre, vacancy is 2206. Not only this, the number of outsourced employees in Public Sector Banks have increased to over 1 lac.
Vacancies in Public Sector Banks
NameoftheBank
ManpowerAssessed
Staffinposition
VacantPosition
Officers
Clerk
Sub-staff
Officers
Clerk
Sub-staff
Officers
Clerk
Sub-staff
Bank of Baroda
49267
25678
6319
44507
25042
5319
4760
636
1000
Bank of India
29599
17874
4639
28558
17665
4651
1041
209
0
Bank of Maharashtra
10677
4131
1631
9917
3911
1631
760
220
0
Canara Bank
53955
20865
8898
53672
19515
8856
283
1350
42
Central Bank of India
22162
10152
4230
21040
8118
4230
1122
2034
0
Indian Overseas Bank
13443
6946
1398
12844
6844
1398
599
102
0
Indian Bank
27932
13449
1861
26426
12472
1861
1506
977
0
Punjab & Sind Bank
7464
2054
1489
7098
1980
1489
366
74
0
Punjab National Bank
56109
29487
22064
53837
28025
20900
2272
1462
1164
State Bank of India
116604
97163
25935
113099
91580
25935
3505
5583
0
UCO Bank
14334
5972
1907
13548
5758
1907
786
214
0
Union Bank of India
46513
22907
5915
46013
22907
5915
500
0
0
Contractual and outsourced workers in PSBs as on 30.06.2025
